Android App Permissions
The cluster focuses on user control over Android app permissions, debates on fine-grained access, comparisons to iOS, rooting for better management, and concerns about apps abusing broad permissions.
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Android applications have as much or as little access as you give them, you don't have to grant every permission an app asks for.
If you're on Android it's done properly through app permissions and doesn't encounter this issue.
Even with apps, you still do not have the fine grained permissions you'd think you'd get. Have you tried?
root your phone and install a permission manager. or use cyanogenmod and enable the built-in.
On iOS and now newer versions of Android you are able to individually grant and revoke permissions. What information are you expecting them to extract via the app that you can't block?
So you're saying they use the Android app permissions model?
Selective Permissions For Androidhttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2684449alsohttp://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=moxie
Android is so broken, each app query should be explicitly approved by user, instead of by reviewer like this.
This is an android thing right? They gotta add more fine grained permissions
This is already part of the built-in permissions management in the latest version of android, no?